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Aakash Srinivasan

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Professional Speaker, Agile trainer and coach who travels to consult Fortune 100 companies, working with enterprise management groups, executive teams and individual project teams on business efficiency, process improvements, organizational change and large scale Agile transformations in addition to providing leadership coaching and other Agile trainings.

schedule 2 months ago

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45 mins

Talk

Beginner

“It is neither the strongest of species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones that are most responsive to change - Charles Darwin”. Agility is not solely about how fast one can move. On the contrary, it is how adaptive and responsive one is to a change with minimal adverse effect. To survive in its ecosystem, an organization much like a living mammal, must grow in size as well as evolve to adapt and protect itself from predators.

In today's complex world of business and technology, Performance and scalability are key optimization opportunities for any organization. Also, a relentless focus on innovation, human capital and global expansion is pivotal for these opportunities to materialize. The ability to evolve in these areas can create competitive advantage for an organization in its habitat. To address these initiatives and ensure its success, companies need to empower their human capital with the right tools and resources to execute their strategy consistently and reliably in the midst of continuous change.

Attend this session to explore ways to realize these opportunities into tangible outcomes, thereby enabling an organization to evolve, stay competitive, think, lead and execute; driving increased revenues, profitability and market shares as the end result. We will introduce a framework that spans 6 key areas; Ideation, Nature, Vision, Engagement, Synthesis and Transition. The session will also demonstrate techniques to enhance business agility using an agility model and the dinosaur analogy.

PLANNING AGILE RELEASES: BUILDING A PATH TO CERTAINITY IN AN UNCERTAIN WORLD

schedule 1 year ago

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60 mins

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Intermediate

Come and learn how to balance flexibility and stability as reflections of each other through the art of Agile release planning; This session will provide attendees with a new perspective on planning releases along with a few techniques and best practices that can be introduced to project teams immediately to encourage rational planning and logical thinking. The session begins with an emphasis on the importance of release planning in Agile and highlights the benefits of doing it right. The presentation also covers an activity for attendees to discuss and share individual experiences on planning releases and recommends a few guard rails derived from several industry best practices and pitfalls many teams have experienced in the past. The core of this presentation consists of a walkthrough of a few tried and tested release planning techniques that will empower the audience to broaden their approach to release planning. The session will conclude with guidance to the attendees on steps to apply these techniques in the work environment.

This topic has been presented on multiple occasions to large audiences (avg. size 100 - 150) at several Fortune 100 organizations including Lowe's, CapitalOne, Time Warner Cable, Berkshire Hathaway and has been selected for IIBA DC BA Development Day 2015.

Empowering Product Owners Through the Art of Story Writing

schedule 1 year ago

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60 mins

Talk

Beginner

Upholding the value of Working Software over Comprehensive Documentation can be challenging and seem unsustainable in the current day and age. The present day rapidly changing businesses and evolving technologies of the dot com era have created a need for iterative and incremental delivery of value to customers and those who refuse to adapt to these growing winds of change struggle to stay relevant in competitive market conditions.

Developing products by valuing a customer's perspective and regularly interacting with them can ensure a balance of focus between a minimum viable product and customer delight. Attend this session to discover the critical building blocks of good User Stories and walk away with an understanding of the importance of a user's perspective to formulate effective and accurate requirements in order to deliver quality products. This session will also engage the audience with a few interactive quizzes and provide them with mantras for sizing and estimating user stories along with handful examples of horror Stories that have led to disastrous results and recommendations on how to avoid such bad practices.

This topic has been presented on multiple occasions to large audiences (avg. size 100 – 150) at several Fortune 100 organizations including Capital One, Lowe’s, Freddie Mac and Berkshire Hathaway.

How To Design Your Own Retrospective

schedule 1 year ago

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45 mins

Talk

Intermediate

“At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly.” -Agile Principle 12

The era of the dot com brought with it torrential swirl in the business and technology world and influenced how organizations perceived ‘Time to Market’ for delivering products. Since then, every organization’s need to inspect and adapt regularly in short intervals has become imperative more than ever in order to stay competitive in the market. The empirical nature of Agile features frequent inspection to help individuals and teams adapt to constant change and establish a sustainable pace of delivering complex products. Attend this session to realize the impact of ‘Retrospectives’ through real world examples and discover innovative ways to design your own retrospective along with a few techniques formulated to foster critical thinking and innovation for continuous improvement.

This topic has been presented on multiple occasions to large audiences (avg. size 100 - 150) at several Fortune 500 organizations including State Street, Freddie Mac, AIG, Capital One , Lowe’s and Agile user groups including Agile Professionals, Sterling, VA.